Trump administration sends 'feds,' 20 ATF agents to Chicago - Washington Times

Trump administration sends 'feds,' 20 ATF agents to Chicago - Washington Times:

"The Trump administration has deployed “the feds” to Chicago that the president threatened to send to the city earlier this year to get a handle on gun violence.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday detailed the federal “strike force” being deployed to the city to target violent offenders and investigate gun crimes."

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Declares State Of Emergency For MTA « CBS New York

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Declares State Of Emergency For MTA « CBS New York:
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Just days after a subway derailment in Harlem, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will be signing an executive order declaring a state of emergency for the MTA.
The governor made the announcement Thursday at the Genius Transit Challenge Conference, an international competition with a $1 million prize to come up with solutions to improve the transit system’s reliability.

Cuomo said the state of emergency will “allow us to expedite many of the normal government processes.”
...While he said issues with the transit system have been going on for years, Cuomo said its “current state of decline is wholly unacceptable.”
“The delays are maddening New Yorkers,” he said. “We need ideas outside the box because, frankly, the box is broken.”
...This week, an A train derailment in Harlem left dozens injured. 
Officials said it appeared to have been caused by an improperly stored piece of rail and two track maintenance supervisors have now suspended without pay.
There have also been multiple breakdowns, delays and countless inconveniences for those who rely on the trains. 
Earlier this month, riders were left sweltering underground in a stuck F train.
...“If you underfund a public transit system by billions of dollars, eventually it’s going to melt down,” said Executive Director of the Riders Alliance, John Raskin.
“That eventually is now.”

Government "Travel-care"-----Some subways are literally held together with zip ties | New York Post

Some subways are literally held together with zip ties | New York Post:
"At more than $1 million per subway car, you’d think they’d be held together with something more than zip ties.
A savvy straphanger noticed a homespun addition to her 7 train Wednesday morning when she saw part of the car fastened with zip ties.
“Zip ties used on the undercarriage of a #7train..is this standard?” tweeted MsJaya_B. 
“How often are these checked for wear and tear?”
With all the problems the MTA has had recently, writers can hardly be blamed for thinking the worst.
An MTA spokeswoman said Wednesday that the zip tie was being used as a temporary fastener to attach a cable to the new R186 cars while a special part is being made.
She added that the cable is attached another way, and the zip tie is just a back-up.
“The ties are a back-up way of securing a cable on the subway car.
It’s used in conjunction with other fasteners,” said MTA spokeswoman Beth DeFalco.
“It’s 100 percent safe and only used on some cars on the #7 line. 
We have a specially designed bracket that is being engineered and is set to be installed in the next few weeks.”"
And this: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/06/29/fed-up-commuters-subway-issues/

The World Is Now $217,000,000,000,000 In Debt And The Global Elite Like It That Way

The World Is Now $217,000,000,000,000 In Debt And The Global Elite Like It That Way
"The borrower is the servant of the lender, and through the mechanism of government debt virtually the entire planet has become the servants of the global money changers.  
Politicians love to borrow money, but over time government debt slowly but surely impoverishes a nation.  
As the elite get governments around the globe in increasing amounts of debt, those governments must raise taxes in order to keep servicing those debts.  
In the end, it is all about taking money from us and transferring it into government pockets, and then taking money from government pockets and transferring it into the hands of the elite.  
It is a game that has been going on for generations, and it is time for humanity to say that enough is enough.

According to the Institute of International Finance, global debt has now reached a new all-time record high of 217 trillion dollars…

Global debt levels have surged to a record $217 trillion in the first quarter of the year. This is 327 percent of the world’s annual economic output (GDP), reports the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

The surging debt was driven by emerging economies, which have increased borrowing by $3 trillion to $56 trillion. This amounts to 218 percent of their combined economic output, five percentage points greater year on year.

Never before in human history has our world been so saturated with debt..."

You ought to know!

Reagan Biographer: GOP Must Retain Trump’s Blue-Collar Voters or ‘Democrats Will Run This Country for 50 Years’

Reagan Biographer: GOP Must Retain Trump’s Blue-Collar Voters or ‘Democrats Will Run This Country for 50 Years’:

"“I knew Ronald Reagan had brought us back from the dead before, so I thought I’d look and see how he did it, and I learned that everything I knew about Reagan was wrong, that he was much more of a populist than he had been given credit, and that’s what allowed him to attract the Reagan Democrats that put him in the White House and let him change America and the world,” he said.

Marlow cited a passage of the book which explains that Reagan forged a bond with white working-class voters from the Democrats’ New Deal coalition who were concerned with rising crime and taxes in the Sixties and Seventies, and the lack of respect for American virtues shown by the Sixties cultural revolutionaries."

Approaching 'Solar Minimum' Will Draw Sun Spot Activity To Low Point

Approaching 'Solar Minimum' Will Draw Sun Spot Activity To Low Point:
"Sun spot activity is argued to be the most important factor in earth’s climate, and lack of spots means global cooling. 
Since global warming has morphed into a religion, advocates will not recant their belief that man-made global warming will destroy the earth. ⁃ TN Editor
The sun is heading into a period known as solar minimum, during which activity at the surface will ‘change form.’
In this time, certain types of activity, such as sunspots and solar flares will drop – but, it’s also expected to bring the development of long-lived phenomena including coronal holes.
According to NASA, solar minimum could also enhance the effects of space weather, potentially disrupting communications and navigation systems, and even causing space junk to ‘hang around.’
The sun follows roughly an 11-year cycle.
While sunspots were relatively high back in 2014, they’re now heading toward a low point expected in 2019-2020, according to NASA.
‘This is called solar minimum,’ said Dean Pesnell of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
‘And it’s a regular part of the sunspot cycle.’..."

AM Fruitcake

History for July 1

History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Gottfried Von Leibniz 1649, George Sand 1804 - Author Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant, Louis Bleriot 1872 - Aviator, first to fly an airplane across the English Channel


Susan Glapell 1882, James M. Cain 1892, Dan Aykroyd 1952 - Comedian, actor ("Driving Miss Daisy," "Saturday Night Live," "Ghostbusters," "The Blues Brothers")


1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.


1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.


1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.


1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.


1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.


1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.


1979 - Sony introduced the Walkman.


1980 - "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.

Multiple people shot inside New York City hospital: Police - Washington Times

Multiple people shot inside New York City hospital: Police - Washington Times:

"NEW YORK — A doctor who used to work at a Bronx hospital returned with a rifle hidden under his white lab coat and opened fire Friday, killing one person and wounding six others before apparently taking his own life, authorities said.
The gunfire broke out at 2:50 p.m. inside the Bronx Lebanon Hospital, drawing police cars and firetrucks to the scene and sending officers onto the roof with their guns drawn as people inside the building were told to hide."

Articles: Obama’s Criminal Enterprise Collapsing

Articles: Obama’s Criminal Enterprise Collapsing:

"Throw in Loretta Lynch and John Koskinen in the political targeting of the Tea Party and Eric Holder’s role in Operation Fast and Furious and withholding of records under executive privilege, and you have a rogues gallery of felons in the most corrupt administration. The very real possibility exists that James Comey, Susan Rice, Loretta Lynch Lois Lerner, John Koskinen, and even Hillary Clinton herself are guilty of federal crimes and belong in federal prison.

Of course, if Hillary Clinton had won, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. But Hillary lost and the Democrats made a foolish strategic error in pursuing charges of collusion and obstruction of justice based on sheer vengeance. "

The way we were-----To Sir, With Love: Steyn's Song of the Week #298 :: SteynOnline

To Sir, With Love: Steyn's Song of the Week #298 :: SteynOnline:
"...Don Black was a guest on The Mark Steyn Show a few weeks back to celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Born Free" becoming the first British song to win an Oscar.
1967 turned out to be a pretty good year for Don because he also wrote what proved to be Billboard's Number One record of the year in America - which isn't bad for an East End boy and tyro lyricist still recovering from his first attempted career (stand-up comedy).
This second entry from the Black songbook was introduced to the world half-a-century ago this month in the hit movie of the same name starring Sidney Poitier..."

Articles: Berniegate: How Jane Sanders Offers a Window into Liberal Scheming

Articles: Berniegate: How Jane Sanders Offers a Window into Liberal Scheming:
"...In short, the scheme concocted by the former Democratic Socialist presidential candidate's wife, Jane Sanders, when she was president of Burlington College serves up everything we've come to expect of modern Democrats: 

• delusional visions of glorious benefits to be realized by the masses if we follow their screwball ideas;
• a shady real estate deal; 
• phony and fraudulent claims used as the basis for getting other people to part with their money; 
• alleged pressure from a powerful Democratic politician on a government-regulated institution to go along with their idea, or else; 
• and, of course, no modern Democratic scandal is complete without a computer server potentially figuring in – in this case, a stolen one.  

The only thing missing is the sex.
But the investigation is still young..."

The Power Grid Is Far More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks Than Most People Realize

The Power Grid Is Far More Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks Than Most People Realize
"In December of 2015, 230,000 people in Western Ukraine lost power after 30 substations were mysteriously shut off. 
Contrary to what most people assumed at the time, this wasn’t an innocuous power outage. 
The authorities would later admit that the loss of power was caused by a cyber attack, which marked the first time that malware was successfully used to attack a power grid. 
A similar, albeit more sophisticated cyber attack, occurred one year later just outside of Kiev. 
Given the current tensions between Russia and Ukraine, it’s widely believed that the Russian government was responsible for these incidents.
However, there’s more to this story than meets the eye. 
A computer security company has been investigating these attacks, and has discovered the malware that was used to take down the grid. 
They’ve found that it’s far more dangerous and easier to use than anyone realized before.

The danger of the malware is that it can automatically trip the breakers within a power system that keep the electrical lines from being overloaded. If one breaker is tripped, the load is shipped to another portion of the power grid. If enough are tripped, in the right places, it’s possible to create a cascading effect that will eventually overload the entire system, said Weatherford, who was formerly the chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the regulatory authority for North American utilities.

“In some cases, it could then take days to restart all the plants,” he said.

Two things stand out about the malware, dubbed “Industroyer” by the researchers — it’s an order of magnitude easier to use than previous programs and it wasn’t actually deployed to do any real damage, meaning whoever’s behind the December attack might simply have been testing the waters. 

In other words, this malware can induce what’s often referred to as a cascading failure. 
This is what caused the massive blackout that occurred in the Northeastern US and Canada back in 2003..."
Read on!

Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice Says GOP Is Targeting Her Because She's Black And A Woman | Daily Wire

Obama's National Security Advisor Susan Rice Says GOP Is Targeting Her Because She's Black And A Woman | Daily Wire:

"“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this. What do you think? ... I do not leap to the simple explanation that it’s only about race and gender. I’m trying to keep my theories to myself until I’m ready to come out with them. It’s not because I don’t have any.”
So it's not "only" about her race and sex, but that's at least part of it, she says. And she's not ready to "come out" with the rest of her theories yet, but she did just want to throw that racism and sexism thing out there.
Rice also wishes other people instead of her were the targets of Republican ire.
“Why me? Why not Jay Carney, for example, who was then our press secretary, who stood up more?” she asked.
Um, because he was a mouthpiece for the administration, a lackey paid to spout the White House line; Rice was a fully vested player, making real decisions (and, sometimes, in the case of Benghazi, lying about them)."