California Plans to Flush More Water to Sea to Save Delta Smelt

California Plans to Flush More Water to Sea to Save Delta Smelt:
"The State of California has released a new plan to save the endangered Delta Smelt, including a proposal to flush up to 250,000 acre-feet of water from reservoirs into the Pacific Ocean in the summertime, despite ongoing drought.
For several years, farmers have watched as fresh water has been diverted from agriculture to save the small bait fish, which is easily bred in laboratories, but has disappeared from estuaries, partly due to predators and party due to saltier conditions.
...As the Sacramento Bee notes, “That’s no small amount: 200,000 acre-feet is equal to a quarter of ...Folsom Lake’s capacity, though not all the amount released would come from Folsom.”
California has suffered a drought over the past five years, and water restrictions remain in place in many areas despite ample rains in the northern part of the state this past winter due to El Niño."

Did Clinton emails doom Iranian nuke scientist to death?

Blog: Did Clinton emails doom Iranian nuke scientist to death?

"One of the non-classified Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department last year may have convinced the Iranian government that a nuclear scientist who claimed he was kidnapped by the CIA was actually a defector and spy for the US.

At the time that the email was released, the press picked up on the bizarre story.

CNN:

New Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department appear to lift the curtain on the bizarre circumstances surrounding Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist who claims to have been abducted by the CIA.

The just-released emails, which were sent to Clinton back in 2010, seem to support what State Department sources have long maintained: that Amiri was not abducted, but a defector and paid informant who changed his mind about helping the U.S.

The emails also appear to offer insight into the department's plans to get Amiri back to Iran safely.

...In the email -- written two days before the CNN report -- Sullivan expressed fear of the media catching wind of the story, writing: "The gentleman you have talked to Bill Burns about has apparently gone to his country's interests [sic] section because he is unhappy with how much time it has taken to facilitate his departure. This could lead to problematic news stories in the next 24 hours. Will keep you posted."...

Amiri was arrested upon his return and tried for treason. 
He was initially given a long prison sentence. 
But something changed recently that prodded the Iranian government to call for his execution..."

Obama springs more prisoners than 9 presidents combined

Obama springs more prisoners than 9 presidents combined:

"President Obama on Wednesday commuted the sentences of another 214 convicted drug felons, mostly dealers, bringing his total to 562 inmates who he has freed under his executive power to end punishments.

And the White House says there are many more reprieves to come.

“Today’s 214 grants of commutation also represent the most grants in a single day since at least 1900,” wrote White House lawyer Neil Eggleston on the White House website. “That being said, our work is far from finished. I expect the president will continue to grant clemency in a historic and inspiring fashion.”"

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History for August 8

History for August 8 - On-This-Day.com
Matthew Henson 1866 - Explorer, along with Robert Peary and their Eskimo guide, were the first people to reach the North Pole, Russell Markert 1899, Dino DeLaurentis 1919
   

Dustin Hoffman 1937, Connie Stevens 1938, Donny Most 1953


1844 - After the killing of Joseph Smith on June 27, Bringham Young was chosen to lead the Mormons.


1876 - Thomas Edison received a patent for the mimeograph. The mimeograph was a "method of preparing autographic stencils for printing."


1899 - The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.


1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Great Britain.


1966 - Michael DeBakey became the first surgeon to install an artificial heart pump in a patient.


1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced that he would resign the following day.


1992 - The "Dream Team" clinched the gold medal at the Barcelona Summer Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat Croatia 117-85.


2000 - The submarine H.L. Hunley was raised from ocean bottom after 136 years. The sub had been lost during an attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864. The Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a warship.

Pay to play-----$375,000 Deposited To The Khan Law Account From The Clinton Foundation

$375,000 Deposited To The Khan Law Account From The Clinton Foundation | GOVERNMENT SLAVES:
"...A hat tip to Powdered Wig contributor, Joe LaVeque for the find, fellow internet bloggers Get Off The BS for publishing the document, and to infamous hacker, Anonymous, who uhhhh, “retrieved” the doc.

As you can see, the image below is a bank letter from Wells Fargo notifying the Kazoo Khan law firm that The Clinton Foundation is depositing $375,000 into its bank account.

Congress was right: The Iran deal is a travesty — and Obama is to blame

Congress was right: The Iran deal is a travesty — and Obama is to blame - Salon.com:
"Onlookers concerned about a nuclear Iran shouldn’t be surprised by a report from The Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration secretly apparently airdropped $400 million in foreign currency in exchange for the release of four Americans, a move that breaches U.S. protocol and amounts to ransom.
Even more troubling, yet not surprising: new reports that Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is publicly backpedalling from President Obama’s prized nuclear deal.
On state-affiliated media, Khamenei reportedly blasted “the futility of negotiations with the Americans” and said the United States wasn’t keeping its promises under the nuclear agreement.
The deal itself was signed under constitutionally questionable circumstances — it essentially amounted to a treaty, which would have required congressional approval–over the protests of Congress, including many Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer.
...The State Department officially denied any explicit link between the $400 million payment and the release of prisoners, that this happened entirely coincidentally, not as a tit-for-tat.
But it’s baffling why this administration continues to place its blind faith in a theocratic, authoritarian regime that bankrolls terror the world over, from Hamas to Hezbollah to the murderous Assad regime..."

Pastor Abedini Says Iran Wouldn’t Release American Prisoners Until ‘Another Plane’ Landed | Video | TheBlaze.com

Pastor Abedini Says Iran Wouldn’t Release American Prisoners Until ‘Another Plane’ Landed | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"One of the Americans recently released by Iran says their departing flight was delayed for hours while their captors waited for another plane to arrive. The Obama administration delivered $400 million in foreign cash by plane the same day Iran released the prisoners."

Israel’s Defense Ministry Compares Iran Deal to 1938 Munich Agreement With Hitler | TheBlaze.com

Israel’s Defense Ministry Compares Iran Deal to 1938 Munich Agreement With Hitler | TheBlaze.com:

"Israel’s Defense Ministry on Friday compared the Obama administration’s Iran nuclear deal to the doomed 1938 Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler, which allowed the Nazis to annex certain parts of Czechoslovakia.

The rare statement was issued days after it was reported that the U.S. made a secret $400 million cash payment to Iran as the Middle Eastern country released four American hostages."

The Student Debt Crisis Is the Predictable Consequence of Subsidies

The Student Debt Crisis Is the Predictable Consequence of Subsidies | Foundation for Economic Education:
"Normally, leftists get upset if there’s a big industry that charges high prices, engages in lots of featherbedding, and manipulates the political system for handouts.

But for some reason, when the industry is higher education, folks like Hillary Clinton think the answer is to shower colleges and universities with ever-greater subsidies.

She says the subsidies are for students, but I point out in this interview that the real beneficiaries are the schools that simply boost tuition and fees to capture any increase in student loans.

And I also pointed out that the colleges and universities don’t even use the money wisely.

Instead, they build bureaucratic empires with ever-larger numbers of administrators while money devoted to the classroom shrinks.

Sort of a pay-more-get-less business model.

Though that only works when there are government subsidies to enable the inefficiency and bloat.

But don’t take my word for it..."
Read on!

Good News, Elizabeth Warren: Women Already Have Equal Pay

Good News, Elizabeth Warren: Women Already Have Equal Pay | Foundation for Economic Education
"At the Democratic Convention, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker lamented that American women do not earn “equal pay for equal work.” A Hillary Clinton administration, they promised, would right this wrong.

The latest U.S. Department of Labor data show that women working full-time make 81 percent of full-time men’s wages. 
But this figure is both inaccurate and misleading. 
This statistic looks only at raw averages and does not take into account factors such as education, skills, and hours worked.

Control for the Obvious

Among young, single, childless workers, women make more.After controlling for other factors, the gender pay gap practically disappears. 
Indeed, among single, childless workers under 30, women earn more than men. 
Legislation to close the gender “wage gap” is misguided: in reality, there is no gap to close.

Likewise, the BLS statistic is misleading because it averages earnings for all full-time women — no matter their education, profession, experience, or hours worked — and earnings for all full-time men. 
As such, it is not an apples-to-apples comparison..."
Read on!

Lunch video-----AirVenture 2016 Wrap-Up

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Always Watching: Company Builds Profile on Every American Adult | TheBlaze.com

Always Watching: Company Builds Profile on Every American Adult | TheBlaze.com:

"It’s a company you probably didn’t even know existed, but it probably knows more about you than some of your closest friends.

IDI, or Interactive Data Intelligence, has only been in business for one year but already, it’s built a profile on every American adult: their addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, the kind of car they drive, voter registrations, hunting permits and criminal and civil citation history. It could even have your shopping patterns based on photos of license plates taken at private businesses or purchases on money-saving websites, which it owns, according to Bloomberg."

Ten Facts About Government Pensions In Michigan

Ten Facts About Government Pensions In Michigan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"7. The average Michigan city has set aside just 69 percent of what’s needed to cover future pension benefits.
The pension funds of the state’s 100 largest cities and townships only hold 69 percent of what they should have to cover future benefits.
That’s actually up from 67 percent in 2014.
The slight increase may be associated with the fact that some cities have closed their defined benefit plan to new employees, who get 401(k) contributions instead.
It might also be associated with enrolling new hires in a less generous defined benefit plan.
These 100 cities combined owe $4.2 billion more than they have set aside."

Putting Canada's Population in Perspective

Putting Canada's Population in Perspective - Metrocosm:
"Half of Canada’s people (red) live south of the Washington-Oregon border"

Lots more at link!

Watch the Ivanpah solar plant incinerate birds and bugs

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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released video footage showing how the intense heat generated by the Ivanpah solar plant incinerates thousands of birds and bats.
“At Ivanpah, evidence of flying animals impacted by intense heat near the solar towers had been observed,” according to new USGS research. The new study showed that although birds and bats were occasionally seen near the towers at Ivanpah, most observations involved insects.”Ivanpah is a federally-backed solar power plant that uses more than 170,000 mirrored heliostats to direct sunlight at tall boilers towers to generate electricity in California. The concentrated sunlight creates an intense field of heat, called a solar flux, around the facility that’s “enough to cause injury or death” to birds or anything else that flies through it.The USGS video shows “small smoking objects (insects) and a larger object (bird) as it begins to smoke when entering the solar flux.” ...A recent study found Ivanpah killed 6,185 birds in 2015, including about 1,145 that were burned up in the plant’s solar flux. Ivanpah has also been known to blind airline pilots flying over Southern California’s desert.The Energy Department put up $1.6 billion in loan guarantees to fund the $2.2 billion solar project, which is co-owned by NRG Energy and Google.

How Iran spent its $400M ‘ransom’ windfall | New York Post

How Iran spent its $400M ‘ransom’ windfall | New York Post:

"The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies uncovered an item in Iran’s 2017 national budget ordering the Central Bank “to give the money from the legal settlement . . . of up to $1.7 billion to the defense budget” — which then rose 90 percent over the prior year’s.

In other words, the cash is being used to arm Iran’s terrorist clients, like Hezbollah, and to fund its war for Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.

And that won’t be the last of it. Iran has already taken several more US hostages since releasing the last batch. Expect fresh ransom demands to follow."

Latest Trump Facebook Ad Receives 2+ Million Views in Less Than 24 Hours…

Latest Trump Facebook Ad Receives 2+ Million Views in Less Than 24 Hours… | The Last Refuge:
"Candidate Donald Trump has an incredible social media reach, because he holds an incredible social media following.
Less than 24 hours ago Trump presented his latest political ad targeting Hillary Clinton, and the video has been watched 2 million times on Facebook alone."

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History for August 7

History for August 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Nathaniel Greene 1742, John Heathcoat 1783 - Inventor, pioneer in lace making, Mata Hari 1876


Ralph Bunche 1904, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer 1927, 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.


1914 - Germany invaded France.


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.


1964 - The U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.


1974 - French stuntman Philippe Petit walked a tightrope strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center.

Benjamin Watson Hammers Planned Parenthood | The Daily Caller

Benjamin Watson Hammers Planned Parenthood | The Daily Caller:

"Baltimore Ravens tight end Benjamin Watson made it very clear that he is anti-Planned Parenthood during an interview with Turning Point Friends.

Watson was asked about race and abortion, and he gave an incredibly blunt answer."