Monday, August 12, 2019
Swedes are switching from planes to trains — here's why
Swedes are switching from planes to trains — here's why
STOCKHOLM — Pär Holmgren can be forgiven for looking haggard as he steps off the train in central Stockholm. After all, he’s withstood a 24-hour commute from his job in Strasbourg, France — some 850 miles away from his home.
Since getting elected into the European Parliament in May, Holmgren, 54, has made the grueling round-trip journey to either Strasbourg or Brussels, the two cities where the Parliament sits, every week.
...The TV personality-turned-politician is part of a growing wave of Swedes who’ve given up flying because of carbon emissions produced by air travel.
In fact, almost 1 in 4 Swedes chose not to fly over the past year, a recent survey commissioned by the WWF Sweden conservation group has found..."
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- “Flight should be seen as a precious gift, to be used wisely and sparingly, not blown on cheap weekend jaunts,” a climate academic told NBC News.
STOCKHOLM — Pär Holmgren can be forgiven for looking haggard as he steps off the train in central Stockholm. After all, he’s withstood a 24-hour commute from his job in Strasbourg, France — some 850 miles away from his home.
Since getting elected into the European Parliament in May, Holmgren, 54, has made the grueling round-trip journey to either Strasbourg or Brussels, the two cities where the Parliament sits, every week.
...The TV personality-turned-politician is part of a growing wave of Swedes who’ve given up flying because of carbon emissions produced by air travel.
In fact, almost 1 in 4 Swedes chose not to fly over the past year, a recent survey commissioned by the WWF Sweden conservation group has found..."
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No, it's NOT settled!-----Ten Causes of Warming: The Layperson’s Checklist | Watts Up With That?
Ten Causes of Warming: The Layperson’s Checklist | Watts Up With That?"What’s Natural?
All temperatures are not created equally.
Rising temperatures have many causes.
Good science demands we explore alternative hypotheses before reaching any conclusions. Below is a list of common causes of warming trends and heat events that everyone should consider in addition to any possible increased greenhouse effect.
1. Heat trapping surfaces: Asphalt and cement not only heat up much faster than natural habitat during the day, those materials hold the heat longer, increasing temperatures at weather stations situated near buildings and near asphalt. More asphalt, more warming, more record temperatures.
2. Loss of Vegetation: During the summer the temperature of a dry dirt road can be 60°F higher at noon, than ground shaded by trees. That’s why our pets instinctively seek the shade. Plants also bring moisture from below the ground that cools the air by evaporative cooling. Increasing deforestation or lost vegetation due to landscape changes cause regional warming trends..."
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Bill Barr Says Epstein’s Death ‘Raises Serious Questions’ | The Daily Caller
Bill Barr Says Epstein’s Death ‘Raises Serious Questions’ | The Daily Caller:
“I was appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead early this morning from an apparent suicide while in federal custody,” Barr said in a statement. “Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered.”
The attorney general added that the FBI was investigating Epstein’s death, and that the inspector general would open a separate investigation as well.
“I was appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead early this morning from an apparent suicide while in federal custody,” Barr said in a statement. “Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered.”
The attorney general added that the FBI was investigating Epstein’s death, and that the inspector general would open a separate investigation as well.
CROWN Act: California becomes first state to ban discrimination against natural hair - CBS News
CROWN Act: California becomes first state to ban discrimination against natural hair - CBS News"A new law signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes California the first state to ban discrimination against black students and employees over their natural hairstyles.
The authors of this new law say women with kinky and curly hair are sometimes subject to unequal treatment, and can even be viewed as inferior.
A recent study by Dove says that black women are 80% more likely to change their natural hair to conform to social norms or expectations at work.
Chastity Jones was locked in a nearly ten-year legal battle after she says an employer took back a job offer at an Alabama call center because Jones refused to cut her hair.
"She said, 'Are those dreadlocks in your hair?' And I just looked at her, and I was like, 'These?'" Jones said. "And she said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Yes, they are.' She said, 'Um, well, we can't accept that here.'"
"It had nothing to do with the job," she added. "It just had everything to do with my hair."...
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"It had nothing to do with the job," she added. "It just had everything to do with my hair."...
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History for August 12
History for August 12 - On-This-Day.com
Cecil B. DeMille 1881, Jane Wyatt 1912, Porter Wagoner 1927
Buck Owens 1929, William Goldman 1931, George Hamilton 1939 - Actor
1898 - The Spanish-American War was ended with the signing of the peace protocol. The U.S. acquired Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Hawaii was also annexed.
2000 - The Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank and its 118-man crew died during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
Sunday, August 11, 2019
FBI kept using Steele dossier for FISA applications despite documenting ex-spy's bias, documents show | Fox News
FBI kept using Steele dossier for FISA applications despite documenting ex-spy's bias, documents show | Fox News:
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday evening. "I know personally there's a lot more out there."
The summaries of FBI interviews with Ohr, known as 302s, indicated that Ohr knew by September 2016 -- a month before the initial FISA application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that an individual with links to the dossier was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President.”
"This is just the tip of the iceberg," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday evening. "I know personally there's a lot more out there."
The summaries of FBI interviews with Ohr, known as 302s, indicated that Ohr knew by September 2016 -- a month before the initial FISA application to surveil the Trump campaign -- that an individual with links to the dossier was "desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being the U.S. President.”
Epstein | Power Line
Epstein | Power Line
"...In the true confessions department, I once had to spend 45 minutes behind bars in a county lockup.
Never you mind just how this happened! (“It was all just a misunderstanding officer! Really, I swear it!”)
The intake process involved removing my tie, my belt, shoes, my wristwatch, and—in what struck me as the most unnecessary step—even my wedding ring.
There wasn’t even toilet paper in the cell that I could attempt to swallow if I wanted to try to choke myself or throw spitwads at another cell dweller (who were all passed out in any case).
"...In the true confessions department, I once had to spend 45 minutes behind bars in a county lockup.
Never you mind just how this happened! (“It was all just a misunderstanding officer! Really, I swear it!”)
The intake process involved removing my tie, my belt, shoes, my wristwatch, and—in what struck me as the most unnecessary step—even my wedding ring. There wasn’t even toilet paper in the cell that I could attempt to swallow if I wanted to try to choke myself or throw spitwads at another cell dweller (who were all passed out in any case).
If a local county lockup can take these kind of precautions against self-harm, it beggars belief that a federal facility, guarding the most high-profile criminal in the country just now, couldn’t prevent a hanging.
This stinks.
Attorney General Barr is asking for an FBI investigation and and Inspector General investigation.
Why an IG investigation, too?
Maybe he doesn’t trust the Clinton-friendly FBI?
(On the other hand, if this IG report takes as long as most of them do to finish, we’ll be dead from global warming before we see it.)"
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Dishwasher regulations draw Trump administration scrutiny - Washington Times
Dishwasher regulations draw Trump administration scrutiny - Washington Times"For years, consumers have complained about slower, noisier dishwashers that produce dirtier dishes, the result of tighter federal efficiency regulations that the Trump administration is now seeking to unload.
The Energy Department last month proposed a rule to create a new dishwasher product class that would finish a normal cycle in an hour or less by using less stringent energy standards than permitted under the current rules.
...the ever-tighter restrictions on energy and water have produced machines that take twice as long without getting dishes as scrubbed as earlier models.
“Basically, these dishwashers have turned into crap, and it is solely the result of the Department of Energy’s so-called efficiency regulations,” said Mr. Kazman..."
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Senate hearing exposes 'massive scale' election meddling: 'These companies are going to go all out' in 2020 - TheBlaze
Senate hearing exposes 'massive scale' election meddling: 'These companies are going to go all out' in 2020 - TheBlaze:
During his testimony, Epstein, a lifelong liberal who has been researching the impact of Google for more than six years, told Cruz that in 2016 Google pushed "between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes" to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton through "search engine manipulation effect, the search suggestion effect, the answer bot effect, and a number of others."
"The methods they are using are invisible. They're subliminal. They are more powerful than most any effects I've ever seen in behavioral sciences, and I've been in behavioral sciences for almost 40 years," Epstein said.
During his testimony, Epstein, a lifelong liberal who has been researching the impact of Google for more than six years, told Cruz that in 2016 Google pushed "between 2.6 and 10.4 million votes" to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton through "search engine manipulation effect, the search suggestion effect, the answer bot effect, and a number of others."
"The methods they are using are invisible. They're subliminal. They are more powerful than most any effects I've ever seen in behavioral sciences, and I've been in behavioral sciences for almost 40 years," Epstein said.
SARAH HOYT---We Don't Have a Problem with White Supremacy. We Have a Problem with Leftist Supremacy | Trending
We Don't Have a Problem with White Supremacy. We Have a Problem with Leftist Supremacy | Trending
"...And their response to it is to launch a brainwashing/gaslighting campaign to find white supremacy where there is none.
"...And their response to it is to launch a brainwashing/gaslighting campaign to find white supremacy where there is none.
...For instance, according to the New York Post, this is what passes for fighting white supremacy in NYC schools: Richard Carranza held ‘white-supremacy culture’ training for school admins.
This presentation included the following slide:
...Instead, let's consider that individualism is now supposed to be white supremacy, and if you like working on your own, or dislike group work... you're supposedly a white supremacist.
Let's consider instead stuff like perfectionism -- you know, trying to make things as perfect as possible and calling out people on their f*ck ups.
Or a sense of urgency -- or as we call it around here, having your work done on time.
Or what they call "worship of the written word," which apparently is the ability to express yourself in writing.
Or objectivity, which they define as BELIEVING THERE'S AN ULTIMATE TRUTH..."
Or a sense of urgency -- or as we call it around here, having your work done on time.
Or what they call "worship of the written word," which apparently is the ability to express yourself in writing.
Or objectivity, which they define as BELIEVING THERE'S AN ULTIMATE TRUTH..."
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‘Stress Reduction Policies’ Let Students Choose Their Own Grades
"A professor at the University of Georgia created a “Stress Reduction Policy” that allows students who feel “unduly stressed” to choose their own grades, according to a Monday report.
Richard Watson incorporated the policy into two business courses...
“If you feel unduly stressed by a grade for any assessable [sic] material or the overall course, you can email the instructor indicating what grade you think is appropriate, and it will be so changed,” Watson said in a syllabus revised Friday for MIST 4610: Data Management.
...All exams will be open-book.
“Only positive comments about presentations will be given in class,” the policy continues..."
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Mark Levin: Biden 'Runs Off' When Confronted by Breitbart News
Mark Levin: Biden 'Runs Off' When Confronted by Breitbart News:
Conservative talker Mark Levin, author of Unfreedom of the Press, took to Twitter to share his thoughts on Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden’s quick evasion of Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak after being confronted by him.
“Biden confronted but then runs off,” Levin wrote in response to the clip shared by Breitbart News.
“Biden confronted but then runs off,” Levin wrote in response to the clip shared by Breitbart News.
Must read!!-----Igniting Civil War – American Greatness
Igniting Civil War – American Greatness
"Government sponsorship of violence against opponents or complacency in the face of incitement to violence is a powerful tool of political repression. Regimes such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, China, and other tyrannies have used such tactics to great effect.
When mobs attack anti-government demonstrators, for example, the police either disappear or stand by watching.
In American cities run by Democrats and on the U.S. college and university campuses, the authorities increasingly have been standing by as radicals do the dirty work of beating up or silencing conservatives.
In societies riven by mutual hate, the people who control the police and public communications make all the difference.
...When societal hatred or the partiality of authorities results in deaths, long-smoldering cold civil war can blaze into holocaust.
We Americans are now facing the danger of a civil war thus ignited.
...What we face now is worse.
What’s Typical in Civil Wars?
Classic civil wars, from Thucydides’ account of the Corcyrean revolution of 431 B.C. to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, tend to be far more bitterly murderous than anything that has yet happened in America.
These wars ignite when public power abets—or is perceived as having abetted—violence in longstanding social struggles, when authorities treat opponents as outside the protection of the laws, or when they criminalize political differences outright..."
"Government sponsorship of violence against opponents or complacency in the face of incitement to violence is a powerful tool of political repression. Regimes such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, China, and other tyrannies have used such tactics to great effect.
When mobs attack anti-government demonstrators, for example, the police either disappear or stand by watching.
In American cities run by Democrats and on the U.S. college and university campuses, the authorities increasingly have been standing by as radicals do the dirty work of beating up or silencing conservatives.
In societies riven by mutual hate, the people who control the police and public communications make all the difference.
...When societal hatred or the partiality of authorities results in deaths, long-smoldering cold civil war can blaze into holocaust.
We Americans are now facing the danger of a civil war thus ignited.
...What we face now is worse.
What’s Typical in Civil Wars?
Classic civil wars, from Thucydides’ account of the Corcyrean revolution of 431 B.C. to the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939, tend to be far more bitterly murderous than anything that has yet happened in America.
These wars ignite when public power abets—or is perceived as having abetted—violence in longstanding social struggles, when authorities treat opponents as outside the protection of the laws, or when they criminalize political differences outright..."
Review: The mosquito isn’t just annoying — Timothy C. Winegard says we’re at war - Los Angeles Times
Review: The mosquito isn’t just annoying — Timothy C. Winegard says we’re at war - Los Angeles Times"...The mosquito is no mere backyard annoyance to be swatted away.
...He contends that the Magna Carta was ultimately signed because Westerners couldn’t survive the mosquitoes in the Mediterranean.
European slave traders came to prefer Africans because of their immunity to the mosquito-borne diseases plaguing the New World.
And those two vanished settlements in the swampy American South, Jamestown and Roanoke?
I’m sure you can guess what Winegard blames for their demise.
While the mosquito was changing human history, it also was changing some human bodies too.
...Seventy percent of the NFL’s players are African American and therefore potential carriers of the sickle-cell trait.
This genetic mutation, which turns round red blood cells into a crescent (or sickle) shape, first affected farmers on the Niger River delta nearly 8,000 years ago as a defense against mosquitoes. (Parasites harboring a brutal strain of malaria can’t stick to the unusual shape.)..."
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